• Empiric therapy or empirical therapy is medical treatment or therapy based on experience and, more specifically, therapy begun on the basis of a clinical...
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    infection is suspected but the group of bacteria is unknown (also called empiric therapy) or when infection with multiple groups of bacteria is suspected. This...
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  • Look up empiric in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Empiric can refer to: Asclepiades of Bithynia A person who practices quackery Empiric school of medicine...
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  • electromagnetic therapy electromagnetic therapy (alternative medicine) (pseudoscientific) electron therapy electrotherapy empiric therapy (two senses, one scientific...
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    results can allow a clinician to change the choice of antibiotics from empiric therapy, which is when an antibiotic is selected based on clinical suspicion...
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    the first-line agents for empiric therapy of simple cystitis. On the other hand, the choice of empiric antimicrobial therapy for pyelonephritis depends...
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  • trials Empirical process, a stochastic process that describes the proportion of objects in a system in a given state Empiric therapy, therapy based on...
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    be used due to its coverage of Gram-positives and Gram-negatives. Empiric therapy will often require multiple drugs from different classes. Surgery (laparotomy)...
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  • the causal agent is able to be treated with. It is the opposite to empiric therapy, which refers to the treatment of infections based on the clinical...
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    an illness but the responsible pathogen has not been identified, an empiric therapy is adopted. This involves the administration of a broad-spectrum antibiotic...
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